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LeadFull-timeRustAI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
HappyCo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural design and technical strategy during a pivotal phase of platform evolution. This role will be responsible for creating clarity where complexity exists, assessing current systems, defining target architectures, and enabling teams to move faster through well-documented patterns and simplified software structures.
Key Responsibilities
- →Architect and design platform systems and services for enterprise-scale SaaS software, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- →Assess existing architectural patterns and system designs across the HappyCo software suite, identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify complexity.
- →Define and document target architectures, guiding principles, and standards that enable teams to build faster and more consistently.
- →Develop architectural proposals, technical plans, and RFCs, and guide them through internal review and decision-making processes.
- →Lead Technical Design Reviews for Staff Engineers and Tech Leads, ensuring alignment with documented patterns and platform direction.
- →Drive platform modernization initiatives, including the deprecation of legacy systems in a way that minimizes risk and customer impact.
- →Provide hands-on technical leadership by contributing POCs, reference implementations, and other artifacts that accelerate shared understanding and adoption.
- →Enable and support external software teams by providing clear documentation, repeatable processes, and timely, decisive architectural guidance.
- →Act as a trusted technical advisor to PDE leadership, promoting and evangelizing architectural direction and best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- ✓Deep experience designing and evolving complex, production-grade SaaS platforms.
- ✓A strong track record of leading architectural change while maintaining system stability.
- ✓Expertise in modern software architectures, including event-driven systems, service orchestration, and platform design.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to reduce technical debt in ways that measurably improve team and organizational velocity.
- ✓Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels of seniority.
- ✓Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making high-impact technical decisions.
